Seaborn Jones (February 1, 1788 – March 18, 1864) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, he attended

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and studied law. By a special act of the

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, he was admitted to the

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in 1808. He commenced a legal practice in Milledgeville. Jones was appointed Solicitor General of the Ocmulgee circuit in September 1817, and was Solicitor General of Georgia in 1823. He was one of the commissioners appointed to investigate the disturbances in the

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; in 1827 he moved to

Columbus, Georgia Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia. Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama. It is the county seat of Muscogee County, with which it o ...

where he built his home El Dorado, later renamed St. Elmo. Jones was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress, serving from March 4, 1833, to March 3, 1835. He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847. He died in Columbus, and was buried was at Linwood Cemetery. Jones' daughter, Mary Howard Jones, married Henry L. Benning, for whom Fort Benning is named. In 2002, the Seaborn Jones Memorial Park in

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was named after Jones.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Seaborn 1788 births 1864 deaths Politicians from Augusta, Georgia American people of Welsh descent Princeton University alumni Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia (U.S. state) Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia (U.S. state) American slave owners 19th-century American politicians